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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Taylor UUCP and ASUS Mainboard w/ onboard UARTs
Date: 9 Aug 1996 19:46:13 GMT
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wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) wrote:

> >Does anyone noticed about a problem with the onboard I/O
> >controlloer from a new ASUS P/I-55T2P4 with T-UUCP ??
> 
> Known problem with the onboard multi-IO chip. Check out the
> mail archives (somewhere on www.freebsd.org I assume) for a
> fix to the sio.c device driver

Sorry, there's no real fix, i'm afraid.  This chip is simply _too_
broken in that it loses sync when being reprogrammed while data are
flowing in.  Normally, it should at least re-sync at the next start
pulse slope.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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